press ephemera (17 Ergebnisse)

1st printing (Dreyfus P7). 16 pp. Illustrated with cuts. 4to. 12-3/8" x 8-1/4" 'Week-End Book' announcement laid in; lacking order blank noted by Dreyfus. VG+ (some minor soiling & wear/faint smudge at top of front cover). Printed light blue paper wrappers, stapled. Deckled edges. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Limited Edition. First Limited Edition Near Very Good Hardcover This is letterpress on hand made deckled paper, hand numbered number' 131' of 500 copies. Original 1912 Limited Edition. Plus Epemera. Clean 30 pages. Some soiling on boards.The King Who Knew Not Fear A Tale of Other Days. Wonderful Irish Wonder tale! A tale of Faerie and Oengus Og the De Danann Celtic God of love. This is hand numbered number' 131' of 425 copies for sale. Internally clean. Grey boards with soiling and a fade shadow where some book must have lay. Book in the style of Chiswick press. Includes Ephemera a separate two page Riccardi Press Advertisement. See all our Scans. NOT a library book Limited Edition Irish Mythic Fantasy. Signed by Author(s).

Folio, (325x240mm), [4]p. Letterpress printed in black & sepia on cream mouldmade laid paper with engravings by Miriam MacGregor and John O'Connor (the latter in two colours). Sometime folded and a little creased in the tail-spine corner. The double-spread in the middle printed as a broadside announcement for the press' A book of posters. Please note that the advised postage is based on an average book, if possible the postage will be reduced to the correct amount and you will be notified by email.

Folio, (325x240mm), [4]p. Letterpress printed in black & red on cream mouldmade laid paper with an engraving by Hellmuth Weissenborn and a tipped-in small sample of vintage paper. Sometime folded. Please note that the advised postage is based on an average book, if possible the postage will be reduced to the correct amount and you will be notified by email.

Single leaf announcing the book's publication, size, binding, and edition limitation. Printed in Vale type. Tomkinson 10 (for the book). Very good with significant toning.

Single leaf announcing the book's publication, size, binding, and edition limitation. Printed in Vale type. Tomkinson 11 (for the book). Very good with a few instances of minor spotting.

Single leaf announcing the book's publication, size, binding, and edition limitation. Printed in Vale type. Tomkinson 28 (for the book). Very good with toning to one side of the leaf.

Single leaf announcing the book's publication, size, binding, and edition limitation. Printed in Vale type. Tomkinson 26 (for the book). Very good with toning to the top edge.

First Edition, First Printing. Three Hands Press Holiday card, 2013 by Joseph Uccello. The second of the Press's commissioned holiday cards, this image features the original illustration "Pilgrimage of the Magi". The back cover contains a short text on the esoteric mysteries of the Magi. Printed in three color letterpress on 200 lb. rag cotton by Dependable Letterpress in San Francisco. Card measures 5" x 7". 1000 copies printed. Fine.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, stapled wrappers, 32pp., spotted etc.good only, but laid in are 13 Ephemeral pieces from the Village Bookshop and Press & Theatre, one of the earliest such openly 'gay' establishments, includes, mailing env., book lists, ads, order forms, etc, we can sell the ephemera separately, inquire.(VVTVbck2).

All in paper wrappers in very good condition.

Six items, comprising: 1. The Song of Honour, 1992; 2. A Letter to Norah, 1993; 3. The Cat that Walked by Himself, 2000; 4. How is a Man Commonplace Book, 2001; 5. Henry Purcell's Dido & Aeneas, 2003; 6. Genesis, 2004; The Escutcheon Press, Sydney, 1992-2004.

From the collection of Australian bookseller and bibliophile Harry Muir, comprising: 1] Prospectus for RED AND GREEN. by Alan McIntyre, decorated by James Meldrum. Pp. [4]: printed in red & green, 3 specimen pages and prospectus, each with decoration; tall cr. 4to; horizontal crease at centre, slightly marked, edges very slightly creased and browned; n.d.[1954]. *With small pencilled note, probably by Harry Muir: ldblquote Rcd. 2/12/54rdblquote . 2] Prospectus for AN EPISTLE FROM OBEREA. By John Scott-Waring, with decorations by Ray Crooke. Pp. [4]: tinted illustration, prospectus, specimen page with half page tinted illustration, blank; narrow demy 4to; horizontal crease at centre, outer leaves lightly marked and soiled; n.d.[1955]. 3] Prospectus for COLONIAL BALLADS. By Hugh Anderson. Single fold, 4 pp.: p. 1: title and press name in red, ppp. 2-3, prospectus with two sketches, p. 4: blank; small super roy. 8vo; horizontal crease at centre; n.d.[1955]. 4] BOOKS IN STOCK. Single fold, 4 pp., printed on recto only, listing seven titles (starting with THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER and ending with 'Now being printed . . . BANDICOOT BALLADS 9-16; vertical fold off centre to allow 'Books In Stock' and press name and address to be displayed; n.d.[1955]. 5] Prospectus for BANDICOOT BALLADS 9-16. Broadside sheet, printed on recto only, with illustration at top of ballad and music for Farewell to the Ladies of Brisbane, and publication details at foot of sheet; folio, with two horizontal folds; n.d.[1955]. 6] Prospectus for GOLDRUSH SONGSTER by Hugh Anderson. Illustrated by Ron Edwards. Single fold, 4 pp.: pp. 1 and 4 reproducing the pictorial card cover, printed in yellow, green and black, p. 2: prospectus, p. 3: specimen page with illustrations, music and ballad; n.d.[1958]. 7] Small mailing list form, n.d. Together seven items.

From the collection of Australian bookseller and bibliophile Harry Muir, comprising: 1] THOUGHTS ON MELBOURNE by a famed printing craftsman, Sir Sydney Cockerell K.T., M.A., Litt.D., friend of William Morris and Sir Emery Walker and London Advisor to the Felton Bequest, by Sir Sydney Cockerell. 1 sheet, 29 cm. x 21.7 cm., verso blank, with typographical decoration at head and foot of text; very lightly soiled, corners a trifle bruised with tiny piece from top right hand corner; 1937. Limited to 50 copies. Farmer p. 43; Keain 84. 2] PRINTER'S DEVICE OF THE HAWTHORN PRESS. Engraved on wood by Adrian Feint, December 1942 [cover title]. French folded sheet, bearing device and titling on upper page and with internal message between two wavy lines: 'WITH COMPLIMENTS FROM JOHN GARTNER/THE HAWTHORN PRESS . 93 TOORONGA ROAD/HAWTHORN EAST . VICTORIA . AUSTRALIA'; within plain envelope, as issued, lightly browned and worn; 1942. 500 copies. Farmer p. 45; Keain 135. 3] THE HAWTHORN PRESS [cover title]. Prospectus for The Australian Heritage Series by Clive Turnbull, and other limited editions published by the press. Pp. [4], single fold, 4 pp., with Adrian Feint device on front page; order form loosely inserted; n.d.[c.1945]. Keain 210. 4] AU REVOIR DINNER TO JOHN GARTNER: From the Staff of The Hawthorn Press The Hotel London 25 June 1956. French folded textured card, text printed in dark brown within green typographical border; soiled; 1956. Keain 725.

First Edition. From the collection of Australian bookseller and bibliophile Harry Muir, comprising a handwritten letter from Gerald Fischer to Harry Muir, dated 19 April 1978, sending some items from his press promised during a recent visit to Beck's Bookstore, and commenting on an association to the former General Secretary of the old [S.A.] Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery he had found in a set of Macaulay's essays bought during his visit; he also reiterates an interest in a copy of a Kookaburra Cookery Book '. if one should turn up not too stained with use . . .' The enclosed items are: 1] Fischer. A DISGRACEFUL PLACARD. Notes to a rare piece of South Australiana. Pp. [8](last blank), cover title with device printed in red, 1 reduced facsimile; stapled without covers; demy 8vo; some light silverfishing to fore-edges, paper lightly browned; The Pump Press, Aldgate, 1956. Farmer p. 39; Farmer Bibliography A1. *The first pamphlet printed by the Pump Press, preceded by some ephemera leaflets printed in 1955. 2] Fischer. SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S FIRST PRINTING PRESSES 1837. Pp. [8](last blank), title page in black with device printed in red, full page illustration of the 1837 printing press; demy 8vo; printed tan textured paper wrappers, with flaps; roy. 8vo, stabbed & tied, with some light silverfishing to outer wrappers; The Pump Press, Aldgate, S.A., 1968. Edition limited to 80 copies. The tenth Pump Press pamphlet. Farmer p. 39; Farmer Bibliography A10. 3] 'ADE! ADE! ADE! Ja Sheiden & Werden thutweh!' Lyndoch Valley Steam & Water Mills. Single fold, 4 pp., p. 1: title and illustration (hand coloured), pp. 2-3: poem, p. 4: note by G.L.F. and colophon, device printed in red; roy. 8vo; Pump Press Poets No. 5, Mosman, N.S.W., 1974. Edition limited to 75 copies. Farmer Supplement p. 6; Farmer Bibliography B5. 4] Quintus Horatius Flaccus. AD VILLICUM SUUM, From the Prize Book of Alexander Oliver: 1853. Pp. [xii], including 4 pp. 'Epistola XIV: . . . , with illustration, on different coloured textured paper, title page printed in red & black; roy. 16mo; printed blue textured paper wrappers, with small illustrated onlay; uncut; The Pump Press, Mosman, N.S.W., 1976. Pump Press Poets Number 7. Number 55 of only 80 copies signed by Gerald Fischer. Farmer Bibliography B7. 5] POOR BLENKINSOP. Single fold, 4 pp., printed in blue & black; p. 1: illustration by Gwenda Fischer 'Blinkie Beach c.74', p. 2: note about Captain John Blenkinsop, a whaler out of Sydney in the early 1830s, p. 3: the title poem, p. 4: colophon; oblong demy 8vo; Pump Press Poets No. 5, Mosman, N.S.W., 1974. Edition limited to 75 copies. Farmer Supplement p. 6; Farmer Bibliography B8. The archive contained in original mailing envelope, tape-repaired and split, addressed by G. L. Fischer to H. B. Muir.